He that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger.
The greatest of disciples wouldst thou be?
Whoever's so ambitious, less is he.
That thou mai'st not go less, to every one
Submit: this, this is Christ's ambition. B.
CXXXV.
In lacrymantem Dominum. Luc. xix. 41.
Vobis, Judaei, vobis haec volvitur unda;
Quae vobis, quoniam spernitis, ignis erit.
Eia faces, Romane, faces! seges illa furoris,
Non nisi ab his undis, ignea messis erit.
He beheld the city, and wept over it.
For you, O Jews, is roll'd this tearful tide,
Which as a flame shall glow, since ye deride.
Torches, Rome's torches—those wild-waving ears
A fiery crop shall prove, fed by these tears. R. Wi.
CXXXVI.
Christus in Aegypto. Matt. ii. 19-21.
Hunc tu, Nile, tuis majori flumine monstra;
Hunc, nimis ignotum, dic caput esse tibi.
Jam tibi, Nile, tumes; jam te quoque multus inunda:
Ipse tuae jam sis laetitiae fluvius.